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Why Are American Drivers So Deadly?
(www.nytimes.com)
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They are tired, overworked, stressed out, not regularly re tested for their licenses, they are in a hurry because they demand convenience and they drive absolutely massive and oversized vehicles, and almost none of them can either afford the money or the time to basic maintenance and ensure their vehicles are actually safe to drive, and due to society in general collapsing, police barely ever respond to reports of drivers violating traffic laws unless they actually seriously injure or kill someone or do absolutely massive property damage, oh right and somehow it is still a widely popular and normalized thing amongst many drivers to drive drunk, high, do their makeup while driving or be on their phone in a manner that reduces their situational awareness and reaction times to basically nill.
Do cars still kill more people than guns in America, or did guns finally overtake automobiles?
Not to mention those big trucks that Americans love to drive that has a very big blindspot.
Yep, forgot that one, thats a pretty big problem too.
They are neck and neck... around 42,000 a year... EACH.
I am Jacks lifelong knowledge of the Automotive Insurance industry.
I had never seen a person driving with their phone mounted in the front window playing movies or watching YouTube while driving until I went to the US. Absolutely fucking insane that people can be this stupid.
Any sources to back up your rhetoric?
So, first off, that's not what rhetoric is or how that works.
Rhetoric is the style of argument used, the kinds of ways that you argue points, the allusions you draw between arguments, what evidence you focus on or dismiss, things like that.
You can easily convince a lot of people with impressive rhetoric that relies on false premises, or you can also easily fail to convince people with logically sound and factually valid arguments but which are presented in a rhetorically uninteresting or off putting way to the audience or reader or whatever.
I am not really using any rhetoric at all here, just listing a bunch of causal factors
And yes, there are sources for all of this, and no I do not feel like spending an entire day searching for published scientific studies that evidence what should basically be familiar to anyone who has ever had to commute to work in a car would know are true.
Blah, blah, blah.
You spouted a bunch of bullshit and refuse to source any of it.
Bro what the fuck lol. You’re such a shit loser haha
"They said, attempting to use rhetoric while misusing the word rhetoric."
How did I misuse the word? Dumb cunt. Be specific.
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The word rhetoric has already been defined for you but unfortunately we cannot understand it for you.